[Jewelry making - Article 00348] - Re: [Orchid] Tumbled Copper Discovery

[John Donivan]

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>     actually silver is a noble metal: it is highly resistant to
>     corrosion. In physics, the definition of a noble metal is one that
>     has all the electrons in the d-shell filled. Silver fits this
>     definition too. Silver is in a transition series but then so is 

    I don't consider it that important to get into it, but I was using
    and thinking of the classical definition - by that they are not. But
    if modern science says they are (I prefer the classics, myself) then
    so be it. 

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